Jefferson Davis
Politician, Military Leader
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena."
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Arena
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Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious."
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
"Don't be afraid of new arenas."
Amy Grant
Singer, Songwriter
"I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices."
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"Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public"
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"In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement."
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"There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation."
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"If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate."
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"The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late."
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"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena."
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"Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up."
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"If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback."
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"Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure."
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"Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change."
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"I have a life outside the arenas."
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"There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too."
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"Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values."
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"That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena."
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"Politics are not my arena. Music is."
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"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death."
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"To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it."
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"I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen."
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"Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away."
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"ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels."
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